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Effect of E-printing on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics

2006; Michigan Publishing; Volume: 9; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3998/3336451.0009.202

1080-2711

Edwin A. Henneken, Michael J. Kurtz, G. Eichhorn, Alberto Accomazzi, C. S. Grant, D. Thompson, S. S. Murray,

Scientific Computing and Data Management

In this report we examine the change in citation behavior since the introduction of the arXiv e-print repository (Ginsparg, 2001). It has been observed that papers that initially appear as arXiv e-prints get cited more than papers that do not (Lawrence, 2001; Brody et al., 2004; Schwarz & Kennicutt, 2004; Kurtz et al., 2005a, Metcalfe, 2005). Using the citation statistics from the NASA-Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System (ADS; Kurtz et al., 1993, 2000), we confirm the findings from other studies, we examine the average citation rate to e-printed papers in the Astrophysical Journal, and we show that for a number of major astronomy and physics journals the most important papers are submitted to the arXiv e-print repository first.